The exotic down and outs of Victorian London

Caney the clown once delighted at the pantomime 'but since his exertions to please the Stepney Fair caused the bursting of a varicose vein in his leg, the mending of chairs brings him constant employment'.

The exotic down and outs of Victorian London

"Street Life in London" by John Thomson Itinerant Photographer on Clapham Common - “Many have been tradesmen or owned studios in town but after misfortunes in business or reckless dissipations are reduced to their present more humble avocation.